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NFL should ban alcohol commercials

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I recently noticed that the National Football League is banning a Super Bowl commercial that was
submitted by Daniel Defense of Georgia. I am all for gun control and keeping guns out of the hands
of people who are not responsible. What I can't understand is the league won't run ads for Daniel
Defense, but will run countless ads for beer commercials that glamorize alcohol as cool, sexy and
the thing to do.

Does the NFL know that drunken drivers killed 10,322 people in 2012? In 2011, 226 child
passengers were killed in drunken-driving crashes.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
reported 11,078 homicides by a firearm in 2010. This, too, is tragic and sad.

My question is why alcohol and not guns? Why is the NFL not outraged about the damage and
destruction alcohol has caused? Why doesn’t it ban these commercials?

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should go to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website and read
the voices of the victims. After reading those voices, I dare him and the network to air alcohol
commercials.